11:56 PM,
Apr. 20, 2013

Merchandise is unpacked and sorted in the receiving area at the Amazon Murfreesboro fulfillment center April 4.

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The competition to bring big companies and their jobs here amounts to selling this area's central location and workforce with tax breaks and grants for infrastructure and job training.

"We have to be competitive with other cities and counties, as well as states," Rutherford County Chamber of Commerce President Paul Latture said. "There are only a certain number of economic development projects in the United States in any given year. We want to be competitive for those projects."

That includes not only new development, but businesses and industries looking to start over in another ...